Stuttering Out Air As Your Mind Goes Blank

[Panic57]

It never fails that when I meet new people and try to have a conversation I start getting anxious.  So anxious that I'll be in the middle of a sentence when suddenly I come up with air as my mind takes a vacation.  It's like my internal self sits back as it watches a disaster from the sidelines with popcorn.  Even if I do think of something to say, the thoughts never manage to make their way to my mouth.  I don't stutter so much as verbal die in the middle of a conversation.  Do you have that problem where you worry so much that it makes it come true even if you try hard not to?  

 

[sidney]

That has never happened to me at all, except for this certain person that had the ability to make me extremely shy to the point that I can't even start a conversation even if I really wanted to. But apart from that incident, I am quite relaxed when talking to strangers.